IAIA16 Sessions

A plain language introduction to Resilience Thinking for IA

Session Proposal ID 45

Lead Chair: RoelSlootweg
| CoChair(s): Mike Jones

Session Format: Workshop | Accepts Submissions: Yes - Open

Resilience thinking provides helpful concepts to define pathways towards sustainability in a changing and unpredictable world. The academic character of the resilience literature makes it inaccessible for impact assessment practitioners. This workshop aims to collect practical experience to draft a plain language introduction to resilience for impact assessment practitioners.

Acceptance Status: approved

Session Proposal ID 47

Lead Chair: JohnSinclair
| CoChair(s): Alan Diduck

Session Format: Paper Session | Accepts Submissions: Yes - Open

IAIA Section: Public Participation

EIA is recognized as a means to broad-based individual and social learning that could enable transitions to sustainability. The purpose of this session is to expand our knowledge of learning-centered approaches in EIA, with a special focus on the potential for such approaches to promote legitimacy, sustainability and resilience.

Acceptance Status: approved

As good as it gets: Working toward quality in impact assessment (I)

Session Proposal ID 79

Lead Chair: BenCave
| CoChair(s): Alan Bond
, RobVerheem

Session Format: Paper Session | Accepts Submissions: Yes - Open

Quality underpins successful IA practice. But quality can be elusive. What makes a good quality assessment? How this can be delivered? We welcome examples of partnership between IA practitioners and academics, and examples of Asian approaches to quality in IA. Join us on our search for good quality IA.

Session Proposal ID 152

Acceptance Status: approved

Session Proposal ID 145

Lead Chair: KiiHayashi
| CoChair(s): Oyunaa Lkhagvasuren

Session Format: Paper Session | Accepts Submissions: Yes - Open

How do you assess the impacts of natural resource development in terms of one's economy, on its people, in its tradition and culture: We will look at EIA/SEA/ES assessment good practices in this region and provide you with a good human network in Asia.

Acceptance Status: approved

Asian SEA, EIA and ecosystem service assessment: EIA and SEA (III)

Session Proposal ID 155

Lead Chair:

Session Format: n/a | Accepts Submissions: Yes - Open

Acceptance Status: approved

Assessing environmental impacts with compliance gaps

Session Proposal ID 75

Lead Chair: YuanXu

Session Format: Paper Session | Accepts Submissions: Yes - Open

Proposed solutions to potential environmental problems in EIA and SEA may not be exactly fulfilled due to compliance gaps. Optimistic assumptions about compliance could underestimate environmental impacts and risks. This session assesses the resulting divergence and explores the integration of compliance consideration in EIA and SEA.

Acceptance Status: approved

Best practice in adopting a strategic approach to sustainable development

Session Proposal ID 90

Strategic environmental assessment (SEA) is gaining traction as countries recognize the imperative of integrating environment and social considerations into policy and planning processes. This session will share knowledge on country uptake of SEA in the Greater Mekong Subregion and more widely the Asia-Pacific region and best practice in its application.

Biodiversity losses have been greatest on the tropical belt. Poor planning for agriculture and forestry are major drivers yet impact assessment receives little attention for its potential to mitigate impacts. This session will explore ESIA for its role in mitigating – or failing to mitigate – these biodiversity losses.

Acceptance Status: approved

Biodiversity offsets: The Asian experience

Session Proposal ID 76

Lead Chair: VinodMathur
| CoChair(s): Asha Rajvanshi

Session Format: Paper Session | Accepts Submissions: Yes - Open

IAIA Section: Biodiversity and Ecology

Biodiversity offsets are increasingly being promoted to incentivize conservation. This session will bring together professionals/practitioners from across the globe, especially from the Asia Pacific region, to share their "win-win" or "playing with fire" experiences when offsets are being implemented in protected areas.

Boom town effects from oil and gas development

Session Proposal ID 96

A roundtable, videos, and dialogue on the ways that oil and gas development creates cumulative social and economic impacts.

Acceptance Status: approved

Building excellence in impact assessment

Session Proposal ID 124

Lead Chair: CharlotteBingham

Session Format: Paper Session | Accepts Submissions: Yes - Open

Let us learn together by sharing and discussing techniques of building excellence in impact assessment. Papers discussing face-to-face training, mentoring, apprenticeships, professional development fellowships, training of trainers, distance learning and the establishment of country-based learning centers are solicited.

Acceptance Status: approved

Building resilience for long-term wellbeing

Session Proposal ID 44

Lead Chair: YoichiKumagai
| CoChair(s): Maria Partidário

Session Format: Theme Forum | Accepts Submissions: Yes - Open

This session considers what builds resilience for long-term wellbeing and how to make that happen. It structures presentations and discussions around three main questions about key elements of resilience for long-term wellbeing, incorporating them in planning and assessment instruments, and distinguishing good and bad resilience.

Acceptance Status: approved

Business and human rights: Where to now?

Session Proposal ID 73

Lead Chair: Sara Bice

Session Format: Paper Session | Accepts Submissions: Yes - Open

IAIA Section: Corporate Stewardship and Risk Management

As industry continues to contend with understanding their human rights related risks and responsibilities, some businesses have been able to navigate this complex area. Businesses are starting to realise the opportunities that positive engagement in the context of Human Rights can bring.

Session Proposal ID 103

Learn about efforts by the Cross Sector Biodiversity Initiative (CSBI) to provide leadership in developing and sharing good practices related to managing biodiversity across the oil and gas, mining, and financial industries. These efforts support the “Best Practice Principles for Biodiversity in IA."

Acceptance Status: approved

Climate change and IA: Good practice cases (II)

Session Proposal ID 33

Lead Chair: ArendKolhoff

Session Format: Paper Session | Accepts Submissions: Yes - Open

IAIA Section: Climate Change

This session will provide the opportunity for people and organizations to share their good practice experiences with the integration of climate change issues in EIA as well as SEA. We welcome good practice cases on climate change adaptation and mitigation for all types of impact assessment and all sectors. Cases will be categorized per sector.

Acceptance Status: approved

Collaboration and capacity building: The key to resilient IA practice?

Session Proposal ID 126

Lead Chair: JoshFothergill

Session Format: Paper Session | Accepts Submissions: Yes - Open

Collaboration is a key trait in progress towards sustainability. This paper session will explore how the IA community is collaborating to make practice more resilient to the increasing scale and complexity of global sustainability challenges.

Acceptance Status: approved

Communities’ role in HRIAs of private sector investment projects

Session Proposal ID 69

Lead Chair: SarahZoen
| CoChair(s): Peter Nestor
, IritTamir

Session Format: Workshop | Accepts Submissions: Yes - Open

IAIA Section: Corporate Stewardship and Risk Management

Through case studies and role play, the workshop will examine approaches to seeking communities’ expectations and assertions of rights during an HRIA and what results ensued. Practical approaches to, and tools available for, will also be explored for community participation during impact assessments as well its subsequent management plans.

Acceptance Status: approved

Contention, social movements, and the politics of impact assessment

Session Proposal ID 78

Lead Chair: JohnDevlin

Session Format: Paper Session | Accepts Submissions: Yes - Open

IAIA Section: Public Participation

Projects continue to put economic valuations foremost while social and environmental concerns are given only secondary consideration. This session will present cases demonstrating how publics mobilize to redress this imbalance and the political dynamics that such efforts create.

Acceptance Status: approved

Contribution of SEA and EIA to Resilient PPP

Session Proposal ID 151

Lead Chair: To be confirmed

Session Format: Paper Session | Accepts Submissions: Yes - Open

Pareticipants discuss how SEA and EIA can contribute to developing resilient policies, plans and projects in various countries other than the EU region. Papers address a variety of issues, from small islands to trans-boundary issues to specific energy projects.

Acceptance Status: approved

Corporate Stewardship and Risk Management Section: World Café

Session Proposal ID 68

Lead Chair: SaraBice

Session Format: Workshop | Accepts Submissions: No - Closed

IAIA Section: Corporate Stewardship and Risk Management

The CSRM Section is building a community of practice. As part of this, we are cultivating a small number (3-6) of corporate case studies about impact assessment learnings and experiences. We will invite participating companies to present their cases in a World Café format at IAIA16.

Acceptance Status: approved

Corporate sustainability assessments

Session Proposal ID 94

Lead Chair: JeromeDonovan
| CoChair(s): Thomas Borgert

Session Format: Paper Session | Accepts Submissions: Yes - Open

Increasingly the private sector is experiencing more pressure to not only engage in sustainability and sustainable development agendas, but also demonstrate their commitment to this through systematic processes to incorporate this into business operations. This session welcomes papers in this area.

Acceptance Status: approved

Country experiences with oil spills and the resilience of ecosystems

Session Proposal ID 31

Lead Chair: ArneDalfelt

Session Format: Paper Session | Accepts Submissions: Yes - Open

Most oil producing countries do sooner or later experience industrial accidents leading to oil spills and serious pollution. Damage inflicted depends on the resilience of affected ecosystems and communities. This session will present experiences by governments in combatting oil spills where ecosystem resilience was important.

Acceptance Status: approved

Cultural heritage: Disaster planning, mitigation and response

Session Proposal ID 107

Lead Chair: Warren Mayes

Session Format: Paper Session | Accepts Submissions: Yes - Open

IAIA Section: Cultural Heritage

Additional IAIA Section if applicable:

Disasters and Conflict

Cultural heritage places and objects are threatened by natural disasters and armed conflict that may make assistance and management difficult. Prospects for protection and salvage are increased if plans exist for mitigating damage. This session explores examples of successful plans and action to protect heritage places during natural disasters and armed conflict.

Acceptance Status: approved

Defining and achieving good practice in scoping

Session Proposal ID 91

Lead Chair: LachlanWilkinson
| CoChair(s): Claire Gronow

Session Format: Paper Session | Accepts Submissions: Yes - Open

Scoping is a critical step in IA but is often done poorly, for a variety of reasons. This session will explore good practice in scoping, drawing on work undertaken in 2015 by the Environment Institute of Australia and New Zealand and case studies and experience from other countries.

Acceptance Status: approved

Developments and trends in HIA and health in EA in Asia and Pacific regions

Session Proposal ID 93

Lead Chair: SalimVohra
| CoChair(s): Julia Nowacki
, RobertBos

Session Format: Paper Session | Accepts Submissions: Yes - Open

IAIA Section: Health

This session aims to bring together policy-makers, practitioners, and academics to explore developments and trends in HIA and health in EA in the Asia and Pacific regions. This presentation-led session will discuss experiences and lessons learned as well as the likely future opportunities and challenges.

Acceptance Status: approved

Disasters, conflict and impact assessment (III)

Session Proposal ID 106

Lead Chair: CharlesKelly

Session Format: Paper Session | Accepts Submissions: Yes - Open

IAIA Section: Disasters and Conflicts

The session brings together papers on conflict and disasters from a range of viewpoints and experiences to provide practical examples of how disasters and conflict can be included into the assessment process. The concept of resilience to disasters and from conflict will be a cross-cutting theme in the session.

Acceptance Status: approved

Early stakeholder engagement during site selection and project design (II)

Session Proposal ID 65

Lead Chair: MonicaFundingsland Tetlow

Session Format: Paper Session | Accepts Submissions: Yes - Open

Early stakeholder engagement is arguably key to an effective EIA process, but is not without challenges for developers. This session aims to identify success factors for effectively managing stakeholder concerns and expectations early in the process when the feasibility of alternative project sites and design solutions is uncertain.

Acceptance Status: approved

Economic impact assessment and sustainable regional development

Session Proposal ID 34

Lead Chair: GalinaWilliams

Session Format: Paper Session | Accepts Submissions: Yes - Open

IAIA Section: Social Impact Assessment

Economic Impact Assessment (EcIA) is usually done at a state or country level. There are challenges and opportunities for IA practitioners to develop a range of EcIA tools that can be used at regional level. A range of international case studies that demonstrate the potential use of these tools is provided.

Acceptance Status: approved

Ecosystem services: Why so little used in planning?

Session Proposal ID 100

Ecosystem services assessments are often merely add-ons to impact assessments. Rarely are they used proactively, allowing to look at planning in an integrating way. We will explore what hinders ecosystem services from being used in IA in a meaningful way and how we can overcome this.

Acceptance Status: approved

EIA and monitoring protocols for seabed minings in deep-sea environments

Acceptance Status: approved

Environmental creation from disaster

Session Proposal ID 128

Through conducting integrated research, environmental emergency research seeks to contribute to both reconstruction and environmental creation in areas affected by earthquakes. In this session, we will discuss environmental emergency research, with a focus on methods and practices.

Acceptance Status: approved

Environmental Information Platform for a resilient and sustainable society

Session Proposal ID 134

Lead Chair: HiromichiFukui
| CoChair(s): Takehiko Murayama

Session Format: Theme Forum | Accepts Submissions: Yes - Open

This forum examines how an Environment Information Platform (EIP) can help make our society resilient and sustainable and shows some use cases. Information technologies such as GIS capacities are radically changed, and we face new challenges: more data, large heterogeneity, variable quality, and new tools to support—especially citizen science.

Acceptance Status: approved

ESIAs in the extractive sector (I)

Session Proposal ID 85

Lead Chair: Aimee Bella
| CoChair(s): Mbianyor Bakia
, AmadouKonare

Session Format: Paper Session | Accepts Submissions: Yes - Open

IAIA Section: Energy - Oil, Gas and Renewable Fuels Section

The session aims to bridge the crucial knowledge gap in the mining sector.

Acceptance Status: approved

ESIAs in the extractive sector (II)

Session Proposal ID 157

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Acceptance Status: Approved

Ethical dilemmas in impact assessment

Session Proposal ID 32

Lead Chair: MarlaOrenstein

Session Format: Panel Discussion | Accepts Submissions: Yes - Open

This panel-based session seeks to foster discussion on some of the uncomfortable ethical issues that impact assessment practitioners encounter. By sharing our problems, experiences and solutions, participants will realize they are not alone and may learn new approaches for resolving ethical dilemmas.

Acceptance Status: approved

Fisheries resilience and sustainable aquaculture

Session Proposal ID 116

Lead Chair: Ijeoma Vincent-Akpu

Session Format: Paper Session | Accepts Submissions: Yes - Open

IAIA Section: Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries

Fisheries and aquaculture subsectors tend to be impacted by their own activities, other sectors' activities, and on the environment. Experiences on fisheries and aquaculture practices that enhance 'eco-mitigation', increase beneficial socio-economic impacts and improve livelihood will be discussed.

Acceptance Status: approved

Future directions for EA research

Session Proposal ID 54

Lead Chair: Prof F P Retief

Session Format: Panel Discussion | Accepts Submissions: No - Closed

This session aims to provide a platform to share current thinking around the future directions for EA research. Leading academics representing a range of EA contexts will briefly introduce their future research strategies and the audience will also be invited to share their views in order to further research coordination and collabo

Acceptance Status: approved

Gender and public participation: Women entrepreneurs in China and Japan

Session Proposal ID 42

Lead Chair: JingSong

Session Format: Paper Session | Accepts Submissions: Yes - Open

Despite the traditional patriarchal system, both China and Japan have recently witnessed more passion for entrepreneurial endeavors among women. In reaction to the question of whether women are losing out, this session examines women’s entrepreneurial and public participation promoted by various government and NGO programs.

Acceptance Status: approved

Habitat and ecosystem restoration as an impact mitigation option

Session Proposal ID 115

Lead Chair: AgnesKiss

Session Format: Panel Discussion | Accepts Submissions: Yes - Open

The reversibility or irreversibility of ecological impacts can be fundamental to assessing project risks. How can EIAs assess the likelihood that ecosystem services and stable species populations can be restored, and what are the practical requirements (legal framework, baseline data, financing, etc.) that must be in place?

Acceptance Status: approved

Health and wellbeing in infrastructure planning: How does IA fit?

Session Proposal ID 92

Lead Chair: PatrickHarris
| CoChair(s): Salim Vohra
, GeethaRamesh

Session Format: Paper Session | Accepts Submissions: Yes - Open

IAIA Section: Health

The purpose of this session is to contribute towards a shared understanding of how health and wellbeing can be better included in infrastructure planning and approvals through impact assessment. The session will be comprised of presentations and a facilitated group discussion.

Acceptance Status: approved

HIA as a creation of deliberative society for sustainable development

Session Proposal ID 48

Lead Chair: Dr. Wiput Phoolchareon
| CoChair(s): Ms. Khanitta Seaiew

Session Format: Panel Discussion | Accepts Submissions: Yes - Open

IAIA Section: Public Participation

Due to prejudice and inequity in using evidences, the session is designed to redefine the HIA mainstream as fostering a deliberative and reconciliation process among the investors and civil society towards sustainable development; and to find the solutions for empowerment and capacity building of civil society, investors and authorities.

Hits of the 1970s: Wisdom from the early days of IA

Session Proposal ID 53

In this session we discuss critical lessons from the formative years of IA. What were the main debates, trends, concepts, cases, professionals and publications? What are the lessons for today’s IA.

Acceptance Status: approved

How do leading practitioners embed sustainability into the ESIA process?

Session Proposal ID 125

Lead Chair: CaryEhrman
| CoChair(s): Alexandra Blood

Session Format: Panel Discussion | Accepts Submissions: Yes - Open

Presenters will be discussing a variety of examples regarding how sustainability has been embedded into the ESIA process for projects using case studies and process presentations. The audience will then comment and discuss.

Acceptance Status: approved

How SEA and EIA contribute to more resilient plans, programs, and projects

Session Proposal ID 138

Lead Chair: LouisMeuleman

Session Format: Paper Session | Accepts Submissions: Yes - Open

The EU environmental impact assessments on plans (SEA) and projects (EIA) have a built-in long term dimension. This session discusses how the EU IAs could contribute to more resilient plans and projects and help prevent future costs and damage, in particular in a transboundary context.

Acceptance Status: approved

How to respond to public concerns on resilience and sustainability

Session Proposal ID 131

Lead Chair: SachihikoHarashina

Session Format: Theme Forum | Accepts Submissions: Yes - Open

IA should be a communication channel to respond to public concerns on resilience and sustainability. The forum will invite the input from various societies to review the state of the art of concise EIA/IA systems. It will be discussed how to introduce such system to respond to public concerns.

Acceptance Status: approved

IFI's accountability mechanisms: Resilience and sustainability (II)

Session Proposal ID 37

The session will focus on lessons learnt in the course of the compliance reviews or mediation processes carried out by the Independent Accountability Mechanisms of the IFIs. Participants are invited to discuss how to use them to build resilience of the communities affected by the projects.

Acceptance Status: approved

Impact assessment (IA) as a design tool

Session Proposal ID 146

Lead Chair: ElsaJoão
| CoChair(s): Lex Brown

Session Format: Workshop | Accepts Submissions: Yes - Open

We will explore the issues involved in using impact assessment as a design tool and discuss how best to engage with people who are skeptical of the benefits of IA and reluctant to do more than what is required by law. All aspects of impact assessment will be considered (e.g., EIA, SIA, SEA, HIA, Ecological Impact Assessment).

Acceptance Status: approved

Impact assessment as a design tool (II)

Session Proposal ID 158

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Acceptance Status: Approved

Impact assessment following large infrequent disturbances

Session Proposal ID 49

Lead Chair: RandallKrichbaum

Session Format: Paper Session | Accepts Submissions: Yes - Open

Impact assessments of large, unplanned disturbance events are often challenging due to the lack of direct pre-disturbance baseline data. This session explores indirect baseline modelling techniques useful in these situations, and looks at the ways impact assessments can be structured to compensate for a lack of direct baseline data.

Acceptance Status: approved

Impact assessment for smart cities (I)

Session Proposal ID 132

Lead Chair: ACChung

Session Format: Paper Session | Accepts Submissions: Yes - Open

Urbanisation is a global trend, giving pressure to the local community from land use, town planning, transportation and infrastructure. This session invites experience sharing on smart city development with case studies on the latest impact assessment practices in toward ultimate sustainability.

Acceptance Status: approved

Impact assessment for smart cities (II)

Session Proposal ID 159

Lead Chair:

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Acceptance Status: Approved

Impact assessment of small things

Session Proposal ID 43

Lead Chair: RaunoSairinen

Session Format: Paper Session | Accepts Submissions: Yes - Open

IAIA Section: Social Impact Assessment

Paper submissions are invited on the topic. Presenters will be asked to prepare brief presentations in order to maximise interaction and discussion.

Acceptance Status: approved

Improving confidence in biodiversity baseline studies

Session Proposal ID 147

Lead Chair: MervynMason

Session Format: Paper Session | Accepts Submissions: Yes - Open

We will explore solutions for improving the confidence in biodiversity baseline studies for ESIAs, as well as the application and interpretation of the IFC’s Performance Standard 6, as foundations for more robust and practical impact assessment.

Acceptance Status: approved

Indigenous cultural landscapes and impact assessment (II)

Session Proposal ID 67

Lead Chair: PatriciaMcCormack

Session Format: Paper Session | Accepts Submissions: Yes - Open

IAIA Section: Cultural Heritage

Additional IAIA Section if applicable:

Indigenous Peoples

Indigenous landscapes are often invisible to outsiders yet are critical for cultural heritage, identity, and resilience. This session addresses issues related to the complexity of these landscapes and of adequate impact assessments.

Acceptance Status: approved

Indigenous Peoples in IA and resilience

Session Proposal ID 160

Lead Chair:

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Acceptance Status: Approved

Innovative communication of project and impacts

Session Proposal ID 66

The session focuses on being creative and using new tools in the EIA process to inform the public and improve decision making. A new form of online digital non-technical environmental statement for wind farm in Iceland will be introduced. Other attendees are invited to present other examples.

Acceptance Status: approved

Integrated policies toward sustainable resource management in Asia

Session Proposal ID 87

Lead Chair: YoshiroHigano
| CoChair(s): Helmut Yabar

Session Format: Paper Session | Accepts Submissions: Yes - Open

IAIA Section: Impact Assessment Law and Policies

This session will explore the potential strategies to promote sustainable resource management in Asia, including technology innovation to improve resource productivity, integral policies to decouple economic growth from environmental pressure, promotion of technology transfer, and collaboration between developed and developing nations.

This session aims at contributing to the development of criteria and indicators of public participation and consensus building by grasping the current status of public participation in Asia.

Acceptance Status: approved

Is nature’s resilience a valid argument for expanding the oil industry?

Session Proposal ID 52

Lead Chair: PeterTarr
| CoChair(s): Arne Dalfelt

Session Format: Debate | Accepts Submissions: Yes - Open

There is still limited knowledge of ecosystem resilience to oil spills and accidents, both off- shore and on-shore. This session debate will throw light on real-life experiences, knowledge and arguments related to ecosystem and natural resources resilience to accidents in the oil and gas sector.

Acceptance Status: approved

Is resilience a valid argument when negotiating impact mitigation?

Session Proposal ID 51

All oil and gas development projects carry significant risks of oil spills and pollution, and natural ecosystems and local communities may be exposed. The concerns of these communities must be taken seriously and their arguments heard. Public hearings are part of the process, and resilience is part of the arguments.

Acceptance Status: approved

JICA’s leadership in impact assessment capacity development

Session Proposal ID 58

JICA is a donor agency involved with impact assessment around the world. This session will share JICA’s leadership in capacity development for environmental/social impact assessment, followed by presentations/discussions with the government officials of Myanmar and Cambodia on the challenges for strengthening their capabilities.

Acceptance Status: approved

Landscapes in development context (I)

Session Proposal ID 61

Lead Chair: IngeLindblom
| CoChair(s): Véronique Simon

Session Format: Paper Session | Accepts Submissions: Yes - Open

IAIA Section: Cultural Heritage

This session focuses on how to manage cultural and natural heritage in urban and suburban landscapes within EIAs and SEAs. In a broader context this session also welcome different methods on how to characterize landscape as a tool for managing values in spatial planning.

Acceptance Status: approved

Landscapes in development context (II)

Session Proposal ID 161

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Acceptance Status: Approved

Meet the editors

Session Proposal ID 148

Lead Chair: RikiTherivel

Session Format: Workshop | Accepts Submissions: No - closed

Want to know how to get published in an academic journal? Unsure which journal is right for you? Would you like to learn about how the process works, from submission to review to publication? Want to ask editors and publishers of major journals questions? This is the session for you!

Acceptance Status: approved

More than men: Managing impacts associated with workforce influx

Session Proposal ID 81

Lead Chair: JanisShandro
| CoChair(s): Koji Nishimiya
, TimMcLaughlin

Session Format: Workshop | Accepts Submissions: No - Closed

Influx during the construction phase can pose a variety of risks to local communities and to projects. This is especially the case in emerging Asian markets where density, worker health, and behavior are influencing factors. This interactive session will explore key risks, strategies and recommendations towards effective influx management.

Session Proposal ID 83

This session deals with actual situations of local and national impacts by nuclear disasters in Fukushima, the feasibility of regional disaster prevention plan for nuclear power plant disasters, and nuclear disaster prevention activities in the Asian region, as well as European efforts on nuclear disaster prevention.

Acceptance Status: approved

ODA and the role of IA for sustainability

Session Proposal ID 97

Lead Chair: Jong-GwanJung

Session Format: Paper Session | Accepts Submissions: Yes - Open

Adaptation of safeguard policy in performance of ODA is mainly focused on the three objectives. Avoiding adverse impacts of projects on the affected local communities, and it minimizes or mitigates for the projects.

Acceptance Status: approved

Oil pollution and gas leakages, social and natural resources resilience

Session Proposal ID 28

Lead Chair: ArneDalfelt
| CoChair(s): Peter Tarr

Session Format: Theme Forum | Accepts Submissions: Yes - Open

The oil and gas industry, including its transport, are prone to accidents leading to oil spills, pollution and gas leakages. The ability of affected natural resources and communities to restore its original productive capacities and status depends on their inherent resilience. IAs need to consider resilience as a principle.

Acceptance Status: approved

Optimizing adaptation to increase resilience in a context of climate change

Session Proposal ID 117

Lead Chair: ManonCirce
| CoChair(s): Claude Desjarlais

Session Format: Paper Session | Accepts Submissions: Yes - Open

Adaptation is key to the resilience of communities facing natural disasters. In a climate change context, adaptation becomes critical and the communities need to make smarter choices. This session aims at sharing practical cases that demonstrate how impact assessment combined with other processes can lead to sustainable solutions.

Acceptance Status: approved

Performance and innovation in resettlement and livelihoods restoration

Session Proposal ID 99

Lead Chair: Vincent Roquet
| CoChair(s): Warren Paul Mayes

Session Format: Panel Discussion | Accepts Submissions: Yes - Open

This session will include presentations on challenging resettlement projects as well as current topics and debate in resettlement, land acquisition and livelihoods restoration. The session will explore solutions that go beyond compliance with legislation and ensure mitigation of impacts and delivery of benefits to project affected p

Acceptance Status: approved

Picture this: Images of resilience and sustainability

Session Proposal ID 62

Lead Chair: AngusMorrison-Saunders
| CoChair(s): Reece Alberts

Session Format: Paper Session | Accepts Submissions: Yes - Open

A picture says a thousand words! Do you have a single image that communicates about resilience or sustainability in impact assessment? Presenters will display and explain their image. Audience participation to select the best image at the session is invited.

Acceptance Status: approved

Planning for disaster debris

Session Proposal ID 129

The session considers debris generated from earthquakes, tsunamis, tropical storms, and other natural and cascading disasters. It emphasizes the need for pre-event planning and highlights the use of new technologies and approaches for data collection and debris management.

Acceptance Status: approved

Poverty, inequality, and resilience

Session Proposal ID 139

Lead Chair: RikiTherivel

Session Format: Paper Session | Accepts Submissions: Yes - Open

This session explores the links between poverty, inequality, and resilience, from the individual to the international level. It aims to improve the consideration of these issues in impact assessment, and lead to more resilient and fairer projects and plans.

Acceptance Status: approved

Power & transmission: resilience for energy shift in transmission systems

Session Proposal ID 30

Lead Chair: Steef J.A.van Baalen

Session Format: Panel Discussion | Accepts Submissions: Yes - Open

IAIA Section: Energy - Power, Generation and Transmission

The current Energy Shift has a large impact on transmission systems. But in what way are we prepared for disasters? are we able to cope with them and build enough resilience into our system. in this session, we will look into ways to asses the robustness of power and transmission systems for natural disasters.

Acceptance Status: approved

Putting out the fire with gasoline: Logistic secrets of PE events

Session Proposal ID 29

Lead Chair: TimothyPeirson-Smith
| CoChair(s): Chris Wong

Session Format: Workshop | Accepts Submissions: Yes - Open

IAIA Section: Public Participation

Without doubt, poor logistics and organisational challenges can derail effective Public Engagement (PE) in EIA. This workshop offers an open platform for participants for sharing of international best practices, silent issues, challenges and the requirements of post-event follow-up for organising successful public engagement events.

Acceptance Status: approved

Quantifying biodiversity impacts and resilience potential

Session Proposal ID 144

This session will focus on methods used to qualtify biodiversity resoration efforts. Presentations will include use of mitigation goals, environmental management plans, quantification of results, adaptive management, and resiliency and sustainability approaches to ensure long-term ecological benefits.

Acceptance Status: approved

Recovery from natural disasters and community resilience in aging society

Session Proposal ID 74

Lead Chair: HidekiKoizumi
| CoChair(s): Ryo Tajima

Session Format: Workshop | Accepts Submissions: Yes - Open

In this workshop, participants will discuss how we can design a sustainable and resilient community in an aging society while facing recovery from natural disasters.

Acceptance Status: approved

Renewable energy landscapes: Livability threat or NIMBY? (I)

Session Proposal ID 101

Lead Chair: JanNuesink
| CoChair(s): Margaret Trias

Session Format: Panel Discussion | Accepts Submissions: Yes - Open

The renewable energy boom features mega windfarms, large PVparks and giant hydropower affecting natural landscapes and rural communities. Few locals benefit, many oppose the impact burden. Just old school NIMBY or should we reframe and rebalance impacts and ‘’externalities’’ of providing sustainable energy to urban centres?

Acceptance Status: approved

Renewable energy landscapes: Livability threat or NIMBY? (II)

Session Proposal ID 162

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Acceptance Status: Approved

Resettlement impacts and creating shared value

Session Proposal ID 163

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Acceptance Status: Approved

Resilience, impact assessment, and coping with major project-induced change

Major projects typically lead to transformational changes in the physical and human environment. How do communities cope with the change that accompanies major projects? In this interactive forum session presenters will discuss the emotional, physical, psychological and relational aspects of resilience and the lessons for HIA, SIA and EIA.

Acceptance Status: approved

Resilient e-governance systems for smart communities

Session Proposal ID 98

Lead Chair: Giuseppe Magro
| CoChair(s): Roberto Mezzalama

Session Format: Paper Session | Accepts Submissions: Yes - Open

We will present new tools based on opportunities opened by Big Data analytics for improving sustainability and resiliency in governance processes by stakeholder-social participation. Real use cases of sustainability optimization are invited.

Acceptance Status: approved

Review of IAIA SEA Performance Criteria

Session Proposal ID 70

Lead Chair: MonicaFundingsland Tetlow

Session Format: Workshop | Accepts Submissions: No - Closed

The SEA Section would like to reserve/”hold” its dedicated time slot for the purpose of discussing/moving forward its ongoing process of reviewing the IAIA SEA Performance Criteria. The details of this session are yet to be developed.

Acceptance Status: approved

Revised IAIA Best Practice Principles for Biodiversity in Impact Assessment

Session Proposal ID 102

Lead Chair: ElizabethClarke
| CoChair(s): Jo Treweek

Session Format: Workshop | Accepts Submissions: No - Closed

IAIA Section: Biodiversity and Ecology

Presenting the revised IAIA Best Practice Principles for Biodiversity in Impact Assessment, following a period of consultation since the last annual IAIA conference in Florence. Session attendees will become familiarised with the principles, to include the revisions, and understand how they can be applied in practice.

Acceptance Status: approved

Role of impact assessment in reaching the new Sustainable Development Goals

Session Proposal ID 108

Lead Chair: GeethaRamesh
| CoChair(s): Filipe Silva
, JuliaNowacki

Session Format: Workshop | Accepts Submissions: No - Closed

IAIA Section: Health

This workshop will explore the role that impact assessment (IA), especially HIA, and IA practitioners have played in supporting the achievement of the MDGs; what opportunities and challenges the new SDGs present for IA; and what role we as a community of practitioners can play in supporting their realization.

Acceptance Status: approved

Roundtable: Status of the IAIA Climate Change and IA Action Plan

Session Proposal ID 63

Lead Chair: WestonFisher

Session Format: Workshop | Accepts Submissions: No - Closed

The results of the Climate Change and IA Workshop Roundtable will be used to advance the actions recommended in the discussion document as well as others that participants suggest receive priority attention.

Acceptance Status: approved

Social impact assessment: Experience and development

Session Proposal ID 164

Lead Chair:

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Acceptance Status: Approved

Social impacts in EA: State of the art

Session Proposal ID 35

Lead Chair: SanneVammen Larsen
| CoChair(s): Anne Merrild Hansen

Session Format: Paper Session | Accepts Submissions: Yes - Open

In parts of the world, including Europe, regulation exists for environmental assessments (EA) but not SIA. In such settings it becomes relevant to explore, how well social impacts are handled in EAs, and thus this session focuses on state of the art of inclusion of social impacts in EA.

Acceptance Status: approved

Social Licence to Operate and community resilience

Session Proposal ID 71

Lead Chair: SaraBice

Session Format: Pecha Kucha | Accepts Submissions: Yes - Open

IAIA Section: Corporate Stewardship and Risk Management

The term ‘social licence to operate’ (SLO) is used to describe the business case for company engagement with stakeholders and issues, especially in resources industries. This session explores the connections between a project's SLO and community resilience.

Acceptance Status: approved

Social Licence to Operate and community resilience (I)

Session Proposal ID 165

Lead Chair:

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Acceptance Status: Approved

Social sustainability assessment in societies with decreasing populations

Session Proposal ID 88

Lead Chair: HidefumiKurasaka

Session Format: Theme Forum | Accepts Submissions: Yes - Open

In a population-decreasing society, we have to face new sustainability problems, including a decreasing working-age population, abandonment of farming and planted forest, deteriorated social infrastructure and diminishing local communities. In order to assure social sustainability, it is necessary to put some assessment process in various planning procedures.

Acceptance Status: approved

State of the art resilience and sustainability-oriented impact assessment

Session Proposal ID 40

Lead Chair: AngusMorrison-Saunders
| CoChair(s): Jack Krohn

Session Format: Theme Forum | Accepts Submissions: Yes - Open

This Theme Forum session will be conducted in a World Café format to maximize participation and information sharing. Two questions drawn from the IAIA16 conference theme will be posed: (1) What are the key characteristics of effective resilience-based IA?; (2) What are the key characteristics of effective sustainability-based IA?

Acceptance Status: approved

Sustainability: Solid ground or a slippery piece?

Session Proposal ID 89

Lead Chair: AshaRajvanshi
| CoChair(s): Vinod B. Mathur

Session Format: Paper Session | Accepts Submissions: Yes - Open

IAIA Section: Biodiversity and Ecology

This session is intended to draw experience from around the world and especially from Asia on the performance and role of impact assessment in halting the loss of biodiversity and to inspire future assessments to promote biodiversity as a key element of sustainability assessment of development proposals.

Acceptance Status: approved

Sustainable infrastructure in Latin America and the Caribbean

Session Proposal ID 113

This session will present approaches to standardizing our understanding of sustainable infrastructure. It will focus on the need for effective multi-sector planning and advances in assessing and measuring sustainability in infrastructure projects.

Acceptance Status: approved

Sustainable transport: Current situations and challenges

Session Proposal ID 130

Lead Chair: HideharuMorishita
| CoChair(s): Yoshitsugu Hayashi

Session Format: Theme Forum | Accepts Submissions: Yes - Open

Since Agenda 21 was published in 1992, the UN has been dealing with transportation issues as key elements for sustainability. This session will deal with current efforts all over the world as well as future challenges for sustainable transport from the environmental, economic, and social points of view.

Acceptance Status: approved

Synergies between impact assessment and industrial ecology

Session Proposal ID 111

Lead Chair: RalfAschemann

Session Format: Paper Session | Accepts Submissions: Yes - Open

This session explores synergies between the communities of impact assessment (IA) and industrial ecology (IE). Example: How can IE tools such as MFA or LCA support IA processes such as EIA or SEA? As a result, both communities should learn and profit from each other in order to unfold their full potential.

Acceptance Status: approved

Systems approaches to impact assessment for resilience and sustainability

Session Proposal ID 46

Lead Chair: JennyPope

Session Format: Paper Session | Accepts Submissions: Yes - Open

This session will explore how systems approaches to impact assessment can enhance practice and promote resilience and sustainability. Such approaches include resilience assessment, systems thinking and all forms of systems analysis, including system dynamics and soft systems methodology. Both theoretical contributions and practical

Acceptance Status: approved

Technological risk and emergency preparedness in the WBG's EHS Guidelines

Session Proposal ID 143

Lead Chair: GaelGregoire

Session Format: Paper Session | Accepts Submissions: Yes - Open

Technological risk assessments and emergency preparedness in the World Bank Group's EHS Guidelines and in IFC Performance Standards.

Acceptance Status: approved

The contribution of SEA and EIA to Resilient PPP

Session Proposal ID 166

Lead Chair:

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Acceptance Status: Approved

The link between resiliency and climate smart(er) impact assessment

Session Proposal ID 57

The Paris Summit outcomes can be used to advance the importance of IA and ensure that IA processes are used effectively in addressing the world’s growing environmental and social climate change challenges. This Forum is intended to help guide IA practitioners and the IAIA community in responding to the Paris directives.

The resilience of Indigenous People

Session Proposal ID 56

This is the dedicated slot for the Indigenous People Section, still evaluating alternatives to use this slot.

Acceptance Status: approved

The role of EA in the “One Belt One Road” initiative (I)

Session Proposal ID 39

Lead Chair: HeXu
| CoChair(s): Kin Che LAM
, Rob Verheem
, Tao Hu

Session Format: Paper Session | Accepts Submissions: Yes - Open

This session aims to provide a platform to identify key issues on how EIA and SEA could play key roles in defending environmental interests in the future progress of "One Belt, One Road". The session will be jointly organized Nankai University and The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Acceptance Status: approved

The role of international cooperation in promoting project benefit-sharing.

Session Proposal ID 59

The panel will explore the role of international cooperation agencies in influencing the role that a government defines for itself, international and national private sectors, in pursuing benefit-sharing objectives for large-scale extractives and energy projects. Recommendations will be made for the field of impact assessment.

There seems to be a need for a better understanding of the interrelationship between SEA and planning in order to achieve a better integration of sustainability in planning. In this session we want to explore the role of SEA in planning and discuss critically recent experiences of reforming SEA in different legal systems.

Acceptance Status: approved

The role of SEA as a facilitator for sustainable planning (I)

Session Proposal ID 167

Lead Chair:

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Acceptance Status: Approved

The role of SEA as a facilitator for sustainable planning (II)

Session Proposal ID 168

Lead Chair:

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Acceptance Status: Approved

Tools and approaches for integrating biodiversity in impact assessment

Session Proposal ID 77

No, but it has been developed in collaboration with, and with full knowledge of the Biodiversity and Ecology Section co-chairs.

Biodiversity in impact assessment: do it right! Ensure your baseline covers its bases, screening identifies biodiversity risks, and your reports are accurate. Learn how to make sure your due diligence is just that and biodiversity is accurately reflected in your impact assessment!

Acceptance Status: approved

Traditional Ecological Knowledge in IA

Session Proposal ID 36

Lead Chair: Anne MerrildHansen

Session Format: Paper Session | Accepts Submissions: Yes - Open

IAIA Section: Corporate Stewardship and Risk Management

People living in rural areas are often closely bonded with nature. This has formed the base for construction of traditional knowledge systems that are holistic in nature. This session discusses the benefits and challenges of including Traditional Ecological Knowledge in Impact Assessments to contribute to a sustainable development.

Acceptance Status: approved

Uptake of impact assessment by the finance sector

Session Proposal ID 86

Lead Chair: To beconfirmed

Session Format: Paper Session | Accepts Submissions: Yes - Open

IAIA Section: Corporate Stewardship and Risk Management

This session explores the past, present and future potential of EIA and SEA to inform the risk management and voluntary corporate responsibility exercises of the finance sector. We are calling for research studies, case-study examples of best or worst cases, opinion and even provocative pieces to start deliberation over this issue.

Acceptance Status: approved

Urban resettlement and land readjustment.

Session Proposal ID 64

Lead Chair: To be confirmed

Session Format: Panel Discussion | Accepts Submissions: Yes - Open

IAIA Section: Social Impact Assessment

Land readjustment or the idea of reassembling land parcels by a new layout plan together with the development of new infrastructures represent an opportunity to provide new ways to solve the old need to involuntary resettled people as the only solution to acquire land to build infrastructure in cities.

Acceptance Status: approved

What’s in it for us?

Session Proposal ID 110

Lead Chair: PaulLawrence

Session Format: Paper Session | Accepts Submissions: Yes - Open

This session invites papers to explore strategies in shifting expectations away from philanthropic gifts toward transparent environmental and social management.